Yankee
Member
After many years of dreaming, I finally purchased a new Remington 700 Police which I plan to use mainly for puching holes in paper at the 200-600 yard range. I stretched the budget to include a Timney trigger and I already have a Harris bipod that I plan to mount it on. My next task is to choose some mounting hardware for optics. I ultimately want a high-end Leupold but the budget won't stretch that far right now so I plan to just use an old Tasco 3-9x40. My question is, what sort of optics base should I use? Is there any good reason to go out and buy a top grade picatinny rail and if not, what sort of bases should I get? What I really want is a long term solution, something rock solid that I can just install and forget about and which won't cause problems some point down the road. Cost isn't as important to me as reliability and durability.